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CFMEU to compel Vic Govt to renegotiate support packages

24 May 2023
The union representing timber workers will mobilise its members and their communities to negotiate a better worker and community support package in light of the devastating news that the Victorian Government will shut down the State’s hardwood industry in the next six months. Source:
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Rationality did not prevail so Andrews put a quick end to native forestry

24 May 2023
The timber industry has universally condemned yesterday’s announcement that the Victorian native timber industry is to be shut down by the end of this year. The decision has been described as flawed, disgraceful, gut-wrenching and devastating. Source: Timberbiz “This Government&
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Vic Govt to shut down timber industry early

23 May 2023
The native timber in Victoria now will be shut down by the end of this year. Source: Timberbiz Today’s announcement brings forward plans announced in 2019 by the Victorian Government to phase out native timber logging by 2030. The State Government today announced an additional $
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Own a piece of Hydrowood with crowdfunding

22 May 2023
Investors will be offered the chance to own a piece of Tasmanian history when underwater harvesting company Hydrowood undertakes an equity crowdfunding program later this month. Source: Timberbiz The brainchild of local co-founders Andrew Morgan and David Wise, Hydrowood is one of the
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Brisbane Olympics gives timber a chance to shine

22 May 2023
The 2032 Brisbane Olympics represent a chance for the timber industry to shine, with opportunities to be explored at Timber Queensland’s Doing Timber Business in Queensland Symposium and R&D tour. Source: Timberbiz Bart Mellish, Assistant Minister to the Premier for Veterans’
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Mount Gambier City Council defers decision to join SAFPA

22 May 2023
Mount Gambier City Council has deferred a decision to consider becoming a member of the South Australian Forest Products Association which would incur a yearly membership fee of $3000.  Source: Timberbiz, SE Voice The significance of the forestry industry in Mount Gambier prompted cou
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VicForests using drones to comply with new Supreme Court orders

19 May 2023
VicForests has started using drones at night to detect endangered fauna to comply with new orders from the Victorian Supreme Court that have temporarily led to the closure of the native forest industry. Source: Philip Hopkins, LaTrobe Valley Express The state’s native harvest operator
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Bunnings watching how WA Govt harvests jarrah for Alcoa

19 May 2023
Bunnings is keeping an eye on how timber harvested by the West Australian government to allow Alcoa to mine has been labelled sustainable despite no rehabilitation of the jarrah forests being completed in 60 years of bauxite mining. Source: WA Today In 2020, UK company BSI audited the
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China reopens its doors to Australian timber

19 May 2023
China will resume the importation of Australian timber, bringing to an end a ban of nearly three years. Source: Timberbiz “The Chinese customs has formally notified the Australian minister of agriculture that starting from today China will resume import of Australian timbers,” Ambassa
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Opinion: Tim Payne – Conservationists are killing the Swift parrot

19 May 2023
Much of the valuable closed canopy forests of the southern and eastern areas of Tasmania, continuously harvested virtually from European first settlement, have this century been barred to industry because they are the seasonal habitat of the critically endangered swift parrot. This ac
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